Nguyen Xuan Phuc

By Matt Spetalnick HANOI, May 23 – U.S. President Barack Obama began his first visit to Vietnam on Monday, part of his strategic “rebalance” towards Asia that could bring more overtures to a former enemy to boost its defense capability as a time of rising South China Sea tension. Underlining the burgeoning commercial relationship between

By Matt Spetalnick ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, May 22 – U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday headed for his first visit to Vietnam, a trip aimed at sealing the transformation of an old enemy into a new partner to help counter China’s growing assertiveness in the region. Four decades after the Vietnam War, Obama –